diff --git a/paddle/fluid/imperative/py_layer_fwd.h b/paddle/fluid/imperative/py_layer_fwd.h
index 79251d7bf7ad6b2ffe0168649c207878d16336da..159371970dcacf0701eb056fdf5caf5c55c473ab 100644
--- a/paddle/fluid/imperative/py_layer_fwd.h
+++ b/paddle/fluid/imperative/py_layer_fwd.h
@@ -226,6 +226,15 @@ py::object PyLayerApply(const platform::Place& place, const py::handle& cls,
       }
     }
     if (if_inplace) {
+      // when pylayer forward is inplace strategy, check whether tensor is leaf
+      for (auto& t : input_vars) {
+        PADDLE_ENFORCE_EQ(t->IsLeaf() && !t->OverridedStopGradient(), false,
+                          platform::errors::InvalidArgument(
+                              "Leaf Var (%s) that doesn't stop gradient can't "
+                              "use inplace strategy.",
+                              t->Name()));
+      }
+
       inplace_map["X"] = "Out";
     }
 
diff --git a/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_pylayer_op.py b/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_pylayer_op.py
index a852b4c90421acb7865abf2aeb58f7a0b346bf41..200273c6066f9df569d7e15012a42e607d20bad5 100644
--- a/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_pylayer_op.py
+++ b/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_pylayer_op.py
@@ -406,6 +406,32 @@ class TestPyLayer(unittest.TestCase):
             z.backward()
             self.assertTrue(data.grad is not None)
 
+    def test_pylayer_inplace_and_leaf_exception(self):
+        class cus_pylayer_op(PyLayer):
+            @staticmethod
+            def forward(ctx, x):
+                return x
+
+            @staticmethod
+            def backward(ctx, dy):
+                return dy
+
+        class Layer(paddle.nn.Layer):
+            def __init__(self):
+                super(Layer, self).__init__()
+
+            def forward(self, data):
+                z = cus_pylayer_op.apply(data)
+                return z.mean()
+
+        for i in range(2):
+            data = paddle.ones([2, 3], dtype="float64") / (i + 1)
+            data.stop_gradient = False
+            layer = Layer()
+
+            with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
+                z = layer(data)
+
     def test_backward_in_backward(self):
         class cus_tanh(PyLayer):
             @staticmethod